Angraecum rutenbergianum Kraenzl. 1882 SECTION Perrierangraecum Photo courtesy of Patricia Harding

Plant and Flower Photo courtesy of Marius Wasbauer

Common Name Rutenberg's Angraecum [German Orchid Collector Madagascar 1800's]

Flower Size 2 1/5" [5.5 cm]

Found in Madagascar at elevations of 1500 to 2200 meters on tree trunks and more often rocks in dense heavily shaded forests as a miniature sized, cool growing lithophyte or epiphyte with a short stem carrying stiff, leathery, somewhat keeled, dull dusty green leaves and blooms at various times of the year on a axillary, 1 1/5" [3 cm] long, single flowered inflorescence.

Synonyms Angraecum catati Baill. ?; Jumellea rutenbergiana (Kraenzl.) Schltr. 1915

References W3 Tropicos [http://mobot.mobot.org/W3T/Search/vast.html] , Kew Monocot list [ http://www.kew.org/wcsp/home.do ], IPNI [ http://www.us.ipni.org/ipni/plantsearch?request_type=search&output_format=query&ret_defaults=on ]; Manual of Orchids Stewart 1995; Miniature Orchids Northern 1988; Cultivated Angraecoid Orchids Of Madagascar Hillerman & Holst 1986; Flora Of Madagascar Perrier 1981

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